Track Your Travelers
Companies rely on the latest technology to track group and transient travelers, keeping them safe on the road...
Post Con: After Hours With Jim Louis
Get to know the founder/Saturday moderator of the Meetings Community (MeCo) and CIO/Meeting Planner at Best Meetings Inc., Bloomington, Minn...
Tough Times for Corporate Event Planners
Tight corporate purse strings put pressure on independents...
Hotel Industry Forecast Improves as Construction Drops Off
Smith Travel Research has updated its forecast for 2010 to reflect a stronger performance than previously predicted in the three main metrics—occupancy, revenue per available room, and average daily rate. ...
Asia/Pacific on the Upswing; China Leads Hotel Pipeline
Early 2010 numbers find hotels in the Asia/Pacific region marketing double-digit increases in average daily rate and RevPar....
MPI Offers Low-Cost (or Free) Registration to the World Education Conference
Meeting Professionals International has cut its registration fees dramatically for its July World Education Conference, with a limited two-week registration promotion that offers rates more than a third off the early-bird member price and more than half off nonmember rates. ...
Check Your Mail: CIC Sends Out Meeting Planner Surveys
The Convention Industry Council has launched what could be the most ambitious study ever on the economic impact of the meetings industry, sending out surveys on April 1 to meeting planners at its 32 member organizations. ...
Not Enough Hands-On Info About SMM? NBTA Responds
The Groups and Meetings Committee of the National Business Travel Association will roll out a comprehensive tool kit this summer....
Texas Roadhouse Takes Incentive to NYC
Texas Roadhouse CEO G.J. Hart, who has become the spokesperson for the value of incentive travel—and the economic impact when these trips are cut—will take his company’s 2010 Managing Partners Conference to New York City next week. ...
Bank of America Makes Huge TelePresence Investment
Bank of America is making a dramatic investment in virtual meetings. By the end of 2010, the financial giant will have the world’s second-largest corporate network of Cisco TelePresence videconferencing systems—second only to Cisco itself....
Capture, Track, Report Meetings Data
Do you know the value of your meetings data?...
IMEX Lines Up Innovators for TechTap 2010
Each year since 2004 the IMEX TechTap, a technology focused stand at the Frankfurt-based exhibition for meetings and incentive travel, has showcased meetings-related technologies, many of which are new products or first-time exhibitors....
Are the New Hyatt Videos Funny?
Tell us what you think about the new meeting planning videos on Funny or Die....
Try This: A High-Tech Scavenger Hunt for Meetings
In January about 60 attendees at a New York City meeting for ESPN Mobile scoured the city on a high-tech scavenger hunt produced by Boston-based SCVNGR. The fast-growing, two-year-old company, which received $4 million in venture funding from Google in December, has been most active creating mobile scavenger hunts as college orientation activities and custom museum tours, but six months ago it dove into the meeting and event space. ...
CIC Takes Part in Worldwide Standard Setting for Sustainable Events
After its hard work creating green standards for meeting planners in North America, the Convention Industry Council’s Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX) now is taking part in an international effort to create a worldwide standard for sustainable events in time for the 2012 Olympics in London....
5 Free Ways to Say Thank You
Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter on no-cost ways to recognize and reward hard workers. ...
Hotel Rates Down, Airfares Up, Says Latest Advito Report
Despite some of the gloomy projections out there, Atlanta–based business travel consulting firm Advito saw a double-digit increase in corporate travel in the first quarter of 2010....
Meeting the Virtual Challenge
While virtual meetings are becoming more popular in today's cost-cutting environment, they aren't always easy to pull off successfully. ...
Sports Sponsorships Pay Off
How three companies from sectors hit hardest by the economic crisis(Bank of America, State Farm Insurance, and Kia Motors) have refocused their sports event marketing to be more in line with the times....
Barbara Scofidio's Check In: Let Us Feed You
In addition to being the publisher of business magazines, we've gone "Web first."...
Are Independent Planners a Commodity?
Are third-party pharmaceutical meeting planning companies a commodity or a service? That was a question debated during an exclusive summit of independent planners at the 6th Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Management Forum...
AmEx Creates Tool for Companies to Measure Their Travel Activities
American Express rolls out a new Web “scorecard” tool and a survey about meetings and travel in the “new normal”...
RBC at the Olympics
When the clients and execs of Canada’s largest bank traveled to the Vancouver Olympics, Jennifer Dela-Cruz, CMP, was there to make it a once-in-a-lifetime experience....
How Meetings Are Changing Post-Recession
according to an expert panel of planners and hoteliers at the 2010 Pharmaceutical Meeting Management Forum, the worst of the recession's fallout on the meeting's industry is ending. ...
Report From IACC Thought Leaders Technology Panel
Use social networking to extend the lifecycle and reach of your meeting, but tread carefully when you put tweets and attendees in the same room....
Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | Next
Advertisement
Advertisement
Sign Up for Our Free E-Newsletters
Meetings Collaborative
Rate your experience with meeting venues and suppliers.
| Powered by: Meetings Collaborative | |
Latest Webinar
Global Meetings: Risk Management A to ZFebruary 28 | 2p.m. EST
Organizations take on more risk than usual when booking meetings outside the U.S. Join our expert panelists and learn how to assess your overall risk, write contracts that protect your organization, manage currency exchange rate fluctuations, keep your travelers safe, and much more.
View it on-demand now!
VIEW ALL ARCHIVED WEBINARS
Advertisement
